Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

On Nov 7, 2013, at 22:24, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chris's point is more subtle: the typical computer will store the number 65536 in a single byte, but it will also store 4 and 8 in one byte. 
> 
> Well, 65536 won't fit in a single byte, nor even in two (only just). A
> typical binary representation of 65536 would take 3 bytes, or 4 for a
> common integer type: 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 (big-endian). 

Quite right -- meant C's int type, (machine word) not char. My mistake!

Michael